Jonathan Marks
marksjo1.bsky.social
Jonathan Marks
@marksjo1.bsky.social

Professor, freelance writer, author of Let's Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education

Political science 32%
Philosophy 29%

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i mean it sounds absurd to say that college admissions is the rationale for a standardized testing regime that teaches writing as mad libs and fragmented excerpt reading

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Here’s my argument about AP and the humanities— www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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How Advanced Placement Cheats Students
www.press.jhu.edu
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
Nothing to worry about, just the chief regulator of the media pressuring a television network to fire a critic of the president.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr just shared a Truth Social post from Trump calling for Seth Meyers to be fired

Problem: it's late. Family's asleep. But screeching "They Want to Kill Us! We Can't Play By The Rules Anymore!" is the only mode of self-soothing that works for me now.

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In case you were wondering why the DOJ Civil Rights Division is investigating a minor scuffle at Berkeley, it’s because the President of the United States saw hype clips circulated by bad-faith click-farmers in the right-wing marketplace, of course.

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No matter how hard I try, and no matter how long it goes on, I just can't get used to the president of the United States routinely promoting lies of the most imbecilic and easily disprovable nature (or in this case mistaking satire for reality).
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

While you suckers were eating or watching TV or whatever you do, I was out reimagining the possible and then, right after, redefining the possible. My—as I call it—wow factor is off the charts. You? Stuck in the past. Sorry to be blunt. But, for me, every season is truth season.

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"Hegseth has fired or sidelined at least two dozen generals and admirals....His actions, which are without precedent in recent decades ... [have created] an atmosphere of anxiety and mistrust that has forced senior officers to take sides and, at times, pitted them against one another."
Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation
www.nytimes.com

I'm not saying that liberal feminism has ruined the workplace. What I am saying is that Dave from Psychology and I were born to be warriors, are not allowed to be warriors, and are also ridiculed when we try to bring this up under "New Business" at faculty meetings.
Imagine what would have happened if Biden or Obama sent masked goons into deep red neighborhoods in Texas or Florida and they started grabbing people off the street and teargassing anyone who objected
Video from today's first gas attack.

Saturday morning in Chicago.

70% off this month. How can you afford *not* to get my book? Don't make me rely on reclusive billionaire, Timothy Mellon to help P.U.P unload what an internal Signal chat to which I was accidentally added calls "that *#$% albatross." press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Let's Be Reasonable
A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal education
press.princeton.edu
lol, great, so we're now subsidizing Argentine ranchers at the expense of American ranchers. Seems politically sustainable, no questions from me.

*US SEEKS TO QUADRUPLE BEEF PURCHASES FROM ARGENTINA: POLITICO

Took my enemy down a notch by calling him "vainglorious" on the faculty floor. He later told friends, "I was ready to be called vain, but I was not ready for that!" My two supporters carried me out on their shoulders, even though one had a calf strain from the last time.

In contrast, my petition to replace Bad Bunny with a karaoke contest between me, the captain of each competing team, and an AI of the late Captain Lou Albano, is receiving no coverage because the MSM doesn't want you to know about it.

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An online petition is looking to replace Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show with 37-year-old country artist George Strait.
nbcbay.com/vmXhPns

This is so fucking ridiculous!
Online petition to replace Bad Bunny's performance at Super Bowl sparks debate
An online petition is looking to replace Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl halftime show with 73-year-old country artist George Strait.
nbcbay.com
ICE has been paying private security for 24/7 guards to watch a guy with no record whose leg they fucked up so badly he has been in a hospital for over a month, and we wonder why people were handing Tom Homan bags of cash.

Via @kyledcheney.bsky.social

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Been a while since I saved the humanities singlehandedly and very quickly. Today, on my dog walk, I noticed, though it was quite early, a group in the park that was on day two of reading Don Quixote aloud. They waved their thanks. I smiled and nodded. Clyde let out a humanities-celebrating "woof!"
I have been on a”victory tour” to celebrate how I recently saved the humanities. In every state, someone comes up to me and says some variant of “Sir! No one thought the humanities could be saved. But you saved them very quickly!”
Some professional news. I have saved the humanities. The humanities are safe, thanks to me.

I have been on a”victory tour” to celebrate how I recently saved the humanities. In every state, someone comes up to me and says some variant of “Sir! No one thought the humanities could be saved. But you saved them very quickly!”
Some professional news. I have saved the humanities. The humanities are safe, thanks to me.

Some professional news. I have saved the humanities. The humanities are safe, thanks to me.

People are unfair. In my own recent speech at the U.N., I focused on when I sent a letter to them suggesting they change their name to the Justice League, because of the crossover potential. They went in a different direction, I said, and now they're doing badly and I'm amazing.

Me: I consumed some hummus today and can't figure out whether this means I'm anti-Palestinian or implicitly killed Jesus or Charlie Kirk. Or does it mean all of these things? I mean, I just like hummus.

My sensitivity consultant: Was it ultraprocessed?

I wrote this, re: Kirk's organization, in 2022. None of it was or is grounds for suppressing TPUSA on campuses (which was attempted at some), or for the loathsome killing of Kirk. But, amid a push for new chapters it shouldn't get to sail under false colors either. www.chronicle.com/article/red-....
Opinion | I’m a Conservative. I’m Dismayed by Right-Wing Campus Activists.
A populist conservatism that bears an uncomfortable resemblance to McCarthyism confronts colleges.
www.chronicle.com
Personalist regime tries to set up another mechanism of control. Silicon Valley firms will be subject to the whims of the mad king.
The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

I reviewed Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly's Letters from Rousseau, which includes some letters never before available in English and fresh translations of letters that are hard to get now that the Collected Writings are, lamentably, out of print. lawliberty.org/book-review/...
Rousseau’s Republic of Letters – Jonathan Marks
A new edition of Rousseau’s letters sheds light on the personality and thought of one of the Enlightenment’s greatest and strangest figures.
lawliberty.org

Can’t believe I wasn’t consulted. We should have held out for a year’s supply of dry erase markers.

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This Is What—and Who—We’re Losing in RFK’s Purge open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
This Is What—and Who—We’re Losing in RFK’s Purge
The story of one scientist, a career in public health, and the crisis at the CDC.
open.substack.com